West Kowloon Cultural District The Box, Freespace WestK｜Hong Kong Arts Festival and The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust co-presenting No Limits 2026: Precarious Moves by Michael Turinsky

Description

A playful, thought-provoking solo performance exploring different kinds of human rhythm and time

Vienna-based Michael Turinsky’s semi-biographical solo performance is a playful, thought-provoking exploration of identity, gesture and the choreography of resistance.

Blending philosophical reflections with humour, dance and song, Precarious Moves urges us to consider how a body sets itself in motion when its relation to the environment appears fundamentally precarious. At the centre of the work is the question of personal and collective needs, and how we can mobilise for different forms of mobility and different kinds of rhythms. Tying in the concept of crip time, Turinsky contemplates our expectations for the disabled body to conform to existing systems of mobilisation and speed.

Sometimes light, sometimes dark, Precarious Moves unfolds as an organic and organised meditation on the connection between the body and the sensual world through which it moves – letting the untamed gesture open our sensitivities and discover its choreographic milieu.

Precarious Moves premiered at Tanzquartier Wien in 2021, and was awarded the prestigious Nestroy Prize for Best Off-Production the same year. In 2024 Michael Turinsky was named Outstanding Artist by the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture.

* Post-performance Meet-the-Artist Session